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TIL Pat Robertson, the old man from The 700 Club, supports marijuana legalization.

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e0o0D TIL in 2018, a firefighter in Massachusetts was reprimanded when he received a call from a concerned cat owner about their pet being stuck in a tree and he responded with, “I’m sure they’ll make their way down eventually. I’ve never seen a cat skeleton in a tree before.”
wnAW TIL an orangutan named Chantek was raised as a human child. He mastered sign language and understands the value and use of money and work, choosing to spend his earnt ‘money’ on his favourite fast food, hamburgers.
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nWxeW TIL the US Supreme Court ruled in a case brought by Jehovah's Witnesses in 1940 that public schools could compel students to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance regardless of religious objections. The ruling was overturned in 1943.
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